Ten minutes later, the hosts could have scored their second after Blundle threw a dummy pass from inside his own half and darted down the midfield before offloading the ball to inside centre Guy Wood.
The ball was flung to wing Grayson Potter but he knocked the ball on in a tackle metres from the Wellsford tryline.
Mid Western made up for that error just three minutes later via a try to wing Cejay Taylor after he took a pass from standout Faialaga Afamasiga who had busted two tackles to put Taylor in the corner.
The home side suffered a big blow though after Wood dislocated his ankle in the 32nd minute and had to be transported to hospital.
Play was held up for about 10 minutes while the injured player was attended to and referee Kyal Collins blew the whistle for an early half time.
The second half was played for 45 minutes.
Soon after kick off in the second spell, Wellsford lock Louis Smith spilled the ball about half way in the Mid Western half while attempting to intercept a pass.
The visitors rued their poor set piece and couldn't gain any traction with a disintegrated scrum, disrupted lineout and often successful counter-rucks by Mid Western.
Their best chance came in the 51st minute after Mid Western players were penalised for losing their feet. Openside flanker Conor Lawson barged through multiple defenders but was stopped short metres from the Mid Western tryline.
Collins awarded Wellsford a penalty try in the 55th minute after Lawson, chasing a clever grubber kick on the left flank, was pushed on the tryline by Mid Western wing Taylor who was sinbinned for the foul.
Coincidentally, Lawson also spent 10 minutes in the naughty chair not long after for throwing a punch at the breakdown.
Mid Western prop Sergio Delafarte got on the scoresheet in the dying stages of the match, being fed off a scrum by lock Tumama Tu'Ulua.
His coach Danny Woodcock said his team needed a win after being thumped by Mid Northern the previous weekend.
"We've had three close losses but the boys fought hard," he said.
Wellsford co-coach Ross Neal said the absence of some front-row players made the difference in the set piece.
"It's hard to get any front football when you're losing your set piece but that's no excuse. We put trust in the others guys to perform on the field," he said.
